Trump’s Embrace of Russia Rocks NATO Alliance

BRUSSELS—The argument between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart on the White Home despatched relations between the 2 international locations right into a tailspin. It additionally precipitated critical harm to an alliance on the coronary heart of the post-World Struggle II order: NATO.

Trump staked out a place that many European allies noticed as siding with Russia’s autocratic chief, Vladimir Putin, by dismissing the safety issues of a pleasant nation in want of Western assist. He mentioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was shedding the battle and had “no playing cards.”